Paul Skenes entered the 2025 season with the expectation of cementing himself as one of the game’s elite pitchers. His year wrapped by being named the National League Cy Young Award winner on Wednesday.

Skenes was unanimously voted as the top pitcher in the NL by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, earning all 30 first-place votes. Phillies lefty Cristopher Sánchez finished second (with 30 second-place votes), and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Dodgers finished third.

Skenes is the third Pirate to win the award, joining Vern Law (1960) and Doug Drabek (1990), who announced Skenes' win on MLB Network. Skenes is the only one of that trio to be a unanimous selection.

Skenes’ 1.97 ERA, 0.95 WHIP, 2.36 FIP and 217 ERA+ were all tops in the National League, as he went 10-10 over

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